The Venus Transit 2004

... the writings!

What was your impression when you viewed the Venus Transit? Did you think of the planet and its star, our Sun? The cosmic clockwork that keeps Venus in its orbit over billions of years? The people who travelled to distant shores in past centuries to make observations?

Did you write this impression down ? In a poem or in a short essay? Are you willing to share it with others? Then why don't you send it to the VT-2004 Organisers? Please note that we can only accept those texts written in English. For texts in other langages, please consult your National Node. The organisers also reserve the right to select the texts to be shown.

O Evening Star! You have declined to the horizon! To rest in the "Beautiful West"! What a graceful tomb! Goodbye Evening Star! And never say goodbye, Venus! Like the phoenix, you will rise from blaze, on June 8! To be resurrected in the morning twilight! Good morning, Morning Star!

Aymen Ibrahem , Bibliotheca Alexandrina, astronomy specialist; Egypt

Transit of Venus go annoy someone else passing cloud

Andre Surridgea , Hamilton, New Zealand [couldn't see it from NZ, good tv coverage though]

Astropoems by members of the Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy-SARM

In other space, for other time, Miss Venus (eternal beauty) and Mr. Sun (master of our daylight) will be married. Don't you see? Lunettes are singing, telescopes are dancing, astronomers are fascinated. Be sky guests, dear friends, this is a great wedding party in the solar system.

On the edge of the solar disk, Venus, tapered like a tear, imploring the star of life to draw it for our eyes waken up from the sleep of the cloudy days.

Dan Mitrut , Bacau

Helios in his chariot of fire Raising into a magic moment For a dream of astral love. Discreet greatness - fecund Venus.

Victor Chifelea , Bucharest

our wakening with the Venusian rise in the orange of the Sun...

Ion Moraru , Bucharest

After more than a century of castling, the Sun and Venus are walking together. (Is the "black drop" of Venus a cosmic tear of joy?)

Andrei Dorian Gheorghe , Bucharest

silence all around: the thrill of the transit overflowing the sky

Tina Visarian , Cluj-Napoca

Face to face with the Sun, even Planet Venus' brilliance becomes night. Face to face with the Sky, we're in debt to receive modestly its high Light.

Valentin Grigore , Targoviste

people and short escapes into space thin cloud trying to eclipse Venus trying to eclipse the Sun another emotion

Andrei Dorian Gheorghe , Bucharest

Venus commits a big breach Relaxing on the Sun's beach!

Sefora Molnar , Sighet

With my open eyes, I look at this world. There are so many ways, my God, to die on Earth! And when I see a spot attacking the Sun, I can easily think of a real contest of the darkness. But... let's be realistic: at the same time life in its infinite magnitude and splendour does not cease its frantic, victorious assault.

Dominic Diamant , Bucharest

The Sun in Gemini Venus in the Sun illusory twin feelings

Andrei Dorian Gheorghe , Bucharest

I didn't see the first part of the Venus transit across the Sun because of the clouds. After some implorations, the sky recovered. The same about my ETX telescope which at first showed a strange image. After some good hits, the telescope recovered.

Alexandru Conu , Magurele

King Sun presenting his Queen Venus. It is the transit. The transit!

Gelu-Claudiu Radu , Cluj-Napoca

Even Venus takes light from the Sun two times in a century to give it to us on Earth in the clear nights...

Valentin Grigore , Targoviste

Superb transit, visible among the cloudy intermittences with the naked eye, and appearing like a lively black colour through the telescope...

Dimitrie Olinici , Suceava

go, heart-time, venus-time, tear-time, sun-time, eye-time... we just love from the lower part to the upper part like the gods and die from the lower part to the upper part like the flight...

Adrian Sima , Bucharest

Sessions, exams, coffee, blue nights But Venus walking indifferently on the Sun. I contemplating this splendour and... Let's dream of a trip to the stars!

Venus! This year our neighboring planet was so beautiful, the brightest "non-starry star" smiling to me from the heights! But now, during its transit across the Sun, my dream planet seeming to become a "black hole"...

Ion Moraru , Bucharest

clouds don't matter: Venus in transit piercing shadows

Tina Visarian , Cluj-Napoca

It's hard to describe that floating almost unreal of an immense mass of matter Naturalness?... Peace?... (Venus in not a simple definition in a dictionary!)

Cornel Apetroaiei , Sighet

Venus - a majestic title role on a solar stage directed by the Creator

Gabriel Ivanescu , Bucharest

You're so dark, Venus, transiting the Sun! But you'll be the "morning star" again...

Andrei Dorian Gheorghe , Bucharest

First contact: timid kiss after 122 years. Contacts 2 and 3: embrace for 5 hours and 24 minutes. Last contact: kiss of good bye for 8 years.

Valentin Grigore , Targoviste

Brilliant Venus wished to show that she can spectacularly run... and passed over the Sun!

Zigmund Tauberg , Bucharest

A transient and hot beauty spot with CO2, Sulphur and a light ring cannot disturb the Sun's face. But Venus murmurs through some radio waves: "Sky lovers, I wish you some day to see from Mars the transit of Terra across the Sun too."

Andrei Dorian Gheorghe , Bucharest

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